Ronz refused to give specifics about the matter but did not have any nice things to say about the Dartmouth coaches.
“From what I hear,” Ronz said of Big Green coach Bob Whalen, “he’s not the greatest individual.”
Dartmouth 18, Harvard 5
It wouldn’t be a Dartmouth weekend without some suspense. Harvard made sure both of yesterday’s games would be interesting when it dropped the second of its two games on Saturday, 18-5, at Red Rolfe Field.
An eight-run inning blew the game open for Dartmouth in the eighth. Harvard never led but had trimmed the Big Green’s lead to 7-5 in the seventh thanks to three Dartmouth errors.
Harvard starter Mike Morgalis (3-3) was chased after five innings. Not long after that, Walsh was in desperate search of anyone who could record outs so his team could just get on the bus and go home.
Junior Jason Brown, senior Matt Self, freshman Wes Cosgriff and sophomore Rob Wheeler all took turns absorbing the damage. Dartmouth notched 15 hits and eight walks before freshman Mike Dukovich moved in from first to record the final outs of the fatal eighth.
Nearly as vicious as the Dartmouth bats Saturday were the jeers shouted by the Dartmouth crowd.
The attacks grew increasingly personal as the day went on. The Big Green’s fans went looking through the players’ media guide bios to make fun of the Crimson players’ families and home situations.
“It’s not baseball when they’re talking about mothers out there,” Wahlberg said.
Dartmouth showed little tact on the field, either. In the eighth inning, with Harvard already trailing 16-5, Dartmouth’s Seth Emery successfully stole third base—an act which Ronz noted yesterday was not appreciated by the Crimson.
Dartmouth 2, Harvard 1
Freshman pitcher Matt Brunnig received more than his share of harassment from the Dartmouth crowd in Saturday’s 2-1 loss, but his resolve was unswerving.
Two of his deliveries in the first inning were not.
Brunnig plunked two of the first three batters he faced and the fourth, Dartmouth co-captain Mike Mileusnic, stroked a hard grounder up the middle that just snuck past Farkes to give Dartmouth a 1-0 lead.
Although the Crimson got the run back when Mann homered on a line shot to straightaway left in the top of the fourth, Dartmouth took the lead back for good in the bottom of the inning when Harvard failed to convert a double-play opportunity.
The loss spoiled a fine effort by Brunnig (3-3), who has surrendered just eight hits in his last two starts and whom Walsh named yesterday along with Ronz as one of his definite starters against Princeton this weekend. Patrick Dowling (4-2) earned the win for Dartmouth.
—Staff writer Brian E. Fallon can be reached at bfallon@fas.harvard.edu.